Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust has launched a pilot to trial electronic consultations across three of its services. The trial started in December 2019 and will run until June 2020, to evaluate the technology and service. The technology is being provided by Block Solutions, a booking platform that will work […]
Month: February 2020
Rotherham Hospital benefits from electronic observations
The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust has benefited from the introduction of electronic observations to wards and calculates the technology to save £22,828.63 per year. It started the roll-on in 2018 and is now live across inpatient and outpatient wards digitally recording blood pressure, pulse and temperature. The trust said “the benefits are clear; electronically gathered data […]
Interview Series: Paul Targett, Managing Director, RIVIAM Digital Care
This week we spoke with Paul Targett, Managing Director, RIVIAM Digital Care, and asked Paul a few questions. Can you tell me about RIVIAM? We first won a contract with an innovative GP Federation, BEMS+,in Bath. This was 5 years ago. They wanted to set up a weekend working service […]
HTN Voice: How the NHS Digital Exchange for Automation can transform service delivery
By Darren Atkins, Chief Technology Officer (Artificial Intelligence and Automation), East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) The rationale and drivers for greater automation within the NHS are beyond argument – increased demand for services, frozen or shrinking budgets and crippling skills shortages. Add in the often shockingly […]
Matthew Gould, NHSX: Regulating AI in health and care
Matthew Gould, Chief Executive Officer at NHSX and a group of senior leaders from regulators recently held a roundtable meeting to discuss AI in healthcare and how the organisation is set to regulate the field. In a blog post published this week, Gould said “Doing AI right means putting a […]
App Library launched across the Humber
NHS organisations across the Humber have come together to launch the Humber Health App Store, designed to help local residents find clinically reviewed, safe and secure apps to help monitor their health and wellbeing. The library humberhealthapps.co.uk contains a range of apps that have been subjected to seven stages of rigorous testing. The […]
InterSystems adds Coronavirus screening functionality to TrakCare
InterSystems has released functionality to its TrakCare® platform to support its customer base globally screen the Coronavirus. The functionality will help clinicians screen and support patients with the Coronavirus, recently named 2019-nCov by World Health Organisation. The functionality is available to users of the latest editions of TrakCare, and InterSystems customers in […]
16 digital adult social care projects awarded share of £4.5m
NHS Digital has announced 16 projects will be awarded a share of £4.5 million to support health tech and digitisation projects. The awards have been made to organisations that provide and commission adult social care services and include projects such as digital workflows, care planning, AI, interoperability and analytics. The […]
London North West to introduce digital task management
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust has agreed a deal with Infinity Health to introduce a care coordination platform to manage clinical tasks. The care coordination and task management platform will be the second project between the two organisations, following the transformation in the way porter requests and patient transfers […]
iPLATO secures funding up to £5 million
IPLATO the company behind the myGP app has secured access to lending of up to £5m from SME credit specialist Caple. Caple has helped iPLATO to access a multimillion pound eight-year unsecured loan to further develop its technology and drive forward its marketing in the UK and to launch internationally. […]
